DAM COLLAPSES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23203, 29 May 1937, Page 13

DAM COLLAPSES

DISASTER IN MEXICO THIRTY-TWO BODIES RECOVERED VICTIMS CAUGHT IN SLEEP (United Press Association) <By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) MEXICO CITY, May 27. Thirty-two bodies have been recovered and 100 more are possibly dead as the result of the collapse of a dam burying the town of Tlalpujahua, Michoacan. Mud and sand from the metal and cyanide workings of the Dos Estrellas Mining Company and heavy rains overtaxed the dam. Seven hundred dwellings were engulfed. The disaster occurred at 3 o'clock in the morning, when the inhabitants were asleep.

ESTIMATES OF THE DEAD MEXICO CITY, May 28. (Received May 28, at 10.30 p.m.) Two thousand miners are searching the debris for bodies by lantern light. Villagers who fled to the mountains when 3,000,000 tons of mud poured over the town, returned to help in the search. Many families have reported members missing, resulting in the estimates of the dead being increased to possibly 500.